“Is french toast
still french toast
if it’s served
on a plate from China?” – Marc N.
Tag Archives: Quotes
always, what if, never
“Do you suppose
it will always go
on like this?”
“No”
“Why not?
“It will crack
somewhere.”
//
“what if god
is just
boundless
potential?”
//
“I’m never
going to wear
tall socks again”
is this true (question mark)
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” ~Sigmund Freud
from Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Many and vast were their secret plans, by which they were to astonish her at some future day, which they would only confide—as they did everything else—to one another. For this brother and sister were everything to each other, and stood loyally together through “thick and thin.”
– Margaret Sidney
Grief
“For in grief nothing “stays put.” One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?
But if a spiral, am I going up or down it?
How often — will it be for always? — how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, “I never realized my loss till this moment”? The same leg is cut off time after time.” – C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
